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  • Individualism: Gil Evans In The 1960s

    Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. https://www.ipm.org/show/nightlights/2019-09-10/individualism-gil-evans-in-the-1960s more ›

  • The next great space race: Building data centers in orbit

    There is concern that there isn’t enough energy to go around. In 2024, the IEA reported that energy demands from data centers and AI will likely more than double from 460 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity in 2022 to more than 1,000 TWh… more ›

  • Battle of Waterberg

    The Battle of Waterberg (Battle of Ohamakari) took place on August 11, 1904, at the Waterberg, German South West Africa (modern day Namibia), and was the decisive battle in the Herero uprising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterberg?wprov=sfla1 more ›

  • Anti-Satellite Weapons and the Emerging Space Arms Race

    While the current space race may not have the same monopoly on the American imagination as the sprint to the moon held during the 1950s and 60s, it deserves our equal attention. https://hir.harvard.edu/anti-satellite-weapons-and-the-emerging-space-arms-race/ more ›

  • Bill Evans Trio, BBC studio, London, March 19th, 1965 (colorized)

    Five 00:00 Introduction by Humphrey Lyttelton 00:50 How my heart sings 01:50 Nardis 05:53 Who can I turn to 11:37 Someday my prince will come 17:37 How deep is the ocean 23:11 Waltz for debby 29:17 Five 34:11 Elsa 36:45… more ›

  • Discourse on colonialism : Césaire, Aimé : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

    Discourse on Colonialism is an essay by Aimé Césaire, a poet and politician from Martinique who helped found the négritude movement in Francophone literature. Césaire first published the essay in 1950 in Paris with Éditions Réclame, a small publisher associated with the French Communist Party. Five years later, he then… more ›

  • Microsoft accidentally told the truth about AI

    Rogue researchers are telling the truth about AI Depth vs breadth: https://ift.tt/zGwhCMx Make ze slop: https://ift.tt/YBU2SjQ https://ift.tt/tZV0cv2 https://ift.tt/q5GpYTf Equipment I use: Camera: https://amzn.to/3QyjE96 Boom mic: https://amzn.to/4d0GbnP Audio interface: https://amzn.to/4d0GbnP Handheld mic: https://amzn.to/4crpRvc Lens: https://amzn.to/41Qfqw7 Key light: https://amzn.to/3QGohy5 Light dome: https://amzn.to/4tnCGxz… more ›

  • The Best Independent Bookstores in America | Condé Nast Traveler

    For National Independent Bookstore Day, our guide to some of the most treasured bookstores in the country—from California to Alaska to Minnesota. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-best-independent-bookstores-in-america more ›

  • Tricky – Out of Place (feat. Marta Złakowska) [Official Video]

    Listen to ‘Out of Place’: https://ift.tt/O2vy9FR From the upcoming album ‘Different When It’s Silent’, released 17 July 2026 via False Idols, pre-order here: https://ift.tt/WsPR0zX Follow Tricky: Mailing list: https://ift.tt/iKJmHv7 Instagram: https://ift.tt/iuAhyjW Facebook: https://ift.tt/rCqiwJR https://ift.tt/EIKzsTF https://falseidols.org/ Credits: Videographer and video editor: Steve Gullick — more ›

  • The Foreign Desk: Live from Delphi: Europe breaks with the US over the war in Iran

    Listen: https://ift.tt/uaNq2ZV Live from the Delphi Economic Forum: The war in Iran’s impact as seen from Iraqi Kurdistan, the US and Estonia. Is there a strategy to resolve the conflict? Then: has the war turned cracks in the Transatlantic relationship… more ›